The grant is titled Creating
an Integrative Family Nurse Practitioner Value Based Student to Practice Model,
and will support the graduate nursing program’s innovative academic-practice
partnership to prepare primary care advanced practice nurses to work in rural
and underserved settings.

This is the third grant
that Hofstra’s nursing school has received from the HRSA, and will help the
university create a pipeline of experienced primary care nurse practitioners
through 2023. The other advanced nursing education grants that the school
received was $1,644,223 for Creating a Nurse Practitioner Student
Transition-to-Primary Care Practice Model in 2016, and $754,236 for a Sexual
Assault Nurse Examiner program in 2018. The nursing school has graduated 73
nurse practitioners since its inception in 2015.

Kathleen Gallo, RN, PhD, dean of the Hofstra Northwell School of Graduate Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies, tells longislandweekly.com, “This grant helps us provide enhanced education opportunities and resources to our advanced practice nurses who will enter the workforce in the specialties of primary and family care, as well as geriatrics and other clinical areas to deliver value-based care. Nurse practitioners play a vital role in the health care delivery system, as evidenced by the growing demand for their services due to an aging population and a shortage of primary care physicians.”

To learn more about the $2,749,151
grant awarded to the Hofstra Northwell School of Graduate Nursing and Physician
Assistant Studies by the US Health Resources and Services Administration to create
a nursing pipeline for underserved communities, visit here.